Award-winning corporate law firm, Kandar & Partners has joined Roosdiono & Partners (a member of ZICO Law) [R&P] as of 1 January 2018. With a team of seven, Fadjar Widjaksana Kandar joins R&P as Co-Executive Partner alongside Leoni Silitonga and heads the firm’s Projects & Resources practice group. Meanwhile, Partner Barryl Rolandi joins R&P’s Banking & Finance practice group, led by Leoni Silitonga.

Fadjar Kandar is a senior lawyer with 26 years of experience in the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors in Indonesia, having advised local and multinational companies from project development to project financing in various infrastructure projects including toll roads, water and electricity.

Barryl Rolandi is a leading banking lawyer with 16 years of experience including working in-house as Senior Legal and Compliance Officer at a large multinational Japanese financial institution. Both Fadjar and Barryl have been recognized by “Asialaw Profiles” as leading lawyers in Energy and Natural Resources and Banking & Finance respectively.

R&P Co-Executive Partner, Leoni Silitonga commented: “This is a positive strategic step for our firm, in line with strategic development plans.  We believe our values and cultures align and that our clients will benefit tremendously as a result.”

ZICO Law Regional Managing Partner and R&P Senior Foreign Counsel, Hanim Hamzah, added that “The addition of Fadjar, Barryl and their team is a great start for the new year, and further strengthens our ASEAN regional expertise.”

Fadjar Kandar said, “We are extremely excited to join Roosdiono & Partners and the ZICO Law network. ZICO’s multidisciplinary platform model and outstanding advantage as ASEAN’s first regional network located in all ten ASEAN countries were definitely motivating factors for us to join.”